Currently, urological surgeons in uenced by the predominance of American urologists in this field have little or no place for the use of imaging modalities in determining whether a patient is suitable for radical prostatectomy with curative intent. They have endeavoured by combining clinical parameters to identify low, intermediate and high risk groups of patients for extra-capsular and possibl...

Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) is a field of engineering that focuses on use of numerical optimization to perform the design of systems that involve a number of disciplines or subsystems. The main motivation for using MDO is that the best design of a multidisciplinary system can only be found when the interactions between the system's disciplines are fully considered. Considering t...

Purpose People who access health services often have a range of needs that require the involvement of members from a multidisciplinary team. Teaching future health professionals about the importance of a multidisciplinary approach can be challenging. The aim of this paper is to describe a project called Recovery Camp that enhanced multidisciplinary health education through experiential and imme...

Trust is a construct studied by a growing number of disciplines that, in time, following a natural process of convergence, have increasingly featured the multidisciplinarity of studies. To fully appreciate the increasing multidisciplinarity of trust literature, a review of the major research areas from the different disciplines has been done. This in order to understand two elements: (1) the ma...

IntroductIon Knowledge in designing a product or rendering a service does not form a complete and coherent body of knowledge that can be precisely documented or even articulated by a single individual. Rather, it is a form of knowing that exists only through the interaction among various collec-has highlighted a need for the development of a diverse workforce if knowledge creation is to be prom...

Ulrike Kaiser1 Bernhard Arnold2 Michael Pfingsten3 Bernd Nagel4 Johannes Lutz5 Rainer Sabatowski1,6 1Comprehensive Pain Center, University Hospital “Carl Gustav Carus”, Dresden, 2Department of Pain Management, Klinikum Dachau, Dachau, 3Pain Clinic, University Medicine, University of Göttingen, 4Day Care Unit, DRK Pain Center, Mainz, 5Interdisciplinary Pain Center, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Bad B...

Nanotechnologies are being applied to many fields of science and engineering and represent a broad spectrum of methods, some of which have been known for a long time. However, the public interest as well as the promotion of this topic by funding agencies has led in some cases to a simple renaming of known fields by attaching the ‘nano-’ prefix, without initiating a true innovation. One field th...

We present a mathematical framework for the so-called multidisciplinary free material optimization (MDFMO) problems, a branch of structural optimization in which the full material tensor is considered as a design variable. We extend the original problem statement by a class of generic constraints depending either on the design or on the state variables. Among the examples are local stress or di...

BACKGROUND Multidisciplinary care is a key enabler in the provision of high quality care for cancer patients. Despite compelling evidence supporting their benefit to patients and for providers, multidisciplinary cancer conferences (MCC) are not universally occurring. Team composition of MCC reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the body. Lack of nursing input can have a negative impact on te...